Northamptonshire stately homes

Althorp is famous as the home of the Earl and Countess Spencer, and the ancestral home of Diana, Princess of Wales. There has been a house at Althorp since the beginning of the 16th century when Sir John Spencer bought land here. The house that Sir John built provides the essential shape of the current building; an enclosed courtyard with a projecting wing along the south side. Althorp is set in magnificent grounds, covering 450 acres of parkland.
Althorp, Northampton, Northamptonshire, England, NN7 4HQ

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Boughton House has been the home of the Montagu family, Dukes of Buccleuch, since 1528. The fascinating house is Tudor at its core, but was gradually extended and expanded over the years until a complete remodelling of the house in 1695 led to it being dubbed 'The English Versailles'.
Kettering, Northamptonshire, England, NN14 1BJ

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Heritage Highlight: Collection of Mortlake tapestries

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A delightful Elizabethan manor house in a mix of styles from Tudor to Georgian. Canons Ashby began life as a 12th century Augustinian priory and was the home of the Dryden family for over 400 years. The interior feature an oak staircase, and an ornate great hall.
Canons Ashby, Daventry, Northamptonshire, England, NN11 3SD

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Cottesbrooke Hall is a lovely Queen Anne house of red brick, built in 1702, and featuring beautiful wrought-iron work and striking Rococo papier-mache decoration. Cottesbrooke is reputed to be the model for Jane Austen's Mansfield Park in the novel of the same name.
Cottesbrooke Hall, Cottesbrooke, Northamptonshire, England, NN6 8PF

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Deene Park is a 16th-century manor house that has been in the hands of the Brudenell family since 1514. Deene Park was built around a much older medieval manor house and incorporates parts of the older building.
Deene, Corby, Northamptonshire, England, NN17 3EW

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A lovely 18th-century stately home, built by James Gibbs for William Hanbury. Hanbury was an antiquarian of some reputation when he came into money by marrying the niece of Viscount Bateman. Hanbury hired Gibb to create a classical mansion in Palladian style, replacing a more modest Jacobean house on the site.
Kelmarsh, Northamptonshire, England, NN6 9LT

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Kirby Hall is one of the most impressive Elizabethan houses in England, a superb symmetrical manor built around a central courtyard. The Hall was built for Sir Humphrey Stafford of Blatherwick in 1570 and greatly enlarged by architect Inigo Jones for Sir Christopher Hatton. The house stands in gardens described by the 4th Sir Christopher Hatton as the finest in England.
Off Kirby Lane, Gretton, Corby, Northamptonshire, England, NN17 3EN

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Lamport Hall is a mid-17th-century Italianate villa designed by John Webb for the Isham family, on the site of an earlier Tudor manor house. The house was one of the first of the Italianate style to be built in 17th-century England. The house was later enlarged by Francis Smith of Warwick, and again in the 1860s, but it still retains its very Italian flavour.
Lamport Hall Preservation Trust Limited, Lamport Hall, Northampton, Northamptonshire, England, NN6 9HD

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Heritage Highlight: A superb collection of rare books and manuscripts - and the first garden gnomes in England!

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Lyveden New Bield is a beautiful shell of an Elizabethan lodge, surrounded by a moated pleasure garden. Lyveden can claim to be one of the first garden layouts in Britain.
Oundle, Peterborough, Northamptonshire, England, PE8 5AT

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This 13th century manor is the oldest in Northamptonshire. The present stone house stands on a historic site, which includes two medieval fishponds, with archaeological and historical evidence of one of King Cnut's royal timber halls.
Nassington, Peterborough, Northamptonshire, England, PE8 6QG

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Heritage Highlight: The oldest manor house in Northamptonshire, set in a recreated 13-15th century garden

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